A normal user's look into the world of 3D Stereo Technologies

Regardless if you are just a user or developer with an Oculus Rift Development Kit you should try out the new Oculus Share feature that was just launched in Beta – a new community driven platform that is supposed to let you self-publish, discover, download, and play the best VR games and experiences already available. The Oculus Share should allow you to host Oculus-ready games and experiences that you’ve developed (added after moderation by the Oculus team), browse and download content from other developers, rate experiences on quality and VR comfort level, provide feedback to developers about your experience with their products, and also be able to tip fellow developers for their work in cash, should you decide to support their work.

One of the main goals in the development of the Oculus Share was to help developers by creating a centralized community portal for Oculus content – there are already a few unofficial similar projects with information about currently available and upcoming Oculus Rift-compatible software. And while it’s simply a sharing service today, over the coming months the idea of the Oculus team is apparently to make Share an marketplace for Oculus-ready games, experiences, and applications. You can think about the Oculus Share for the Rift becoming something like the Google Play (Marketplace) is for Android devices or the Apple App Store for the iOS devices and we definitely need such a centralized place. The Oculus Share is currently down for maintenance, so you will probably be able to try it out a bit later.

Meanwhile DDD has released a new beta version of their TriDef 3D Ignition software with support for Oculus Rift adding support for a few more games such as Metro 2033, Portal, rFactor 2, TrackMania Nations Forever (no Head Tracking) and Proun (no Head Tracking) along with some fixes and improvements. Don’t forget that you need to have a full installation of the latest TriDef 3D software and to install the beta version of the Ignition 3.7.6b4 on top in order to be able to test the support for the Rift.